British Columbia severance calculator
British Columbia has no statutory "severance pay": the Employment Standards Act instead sets compensation for length of service and, when 50 or more employees are let go, group termination pay.
Answer a few questions about your job and how it ended. You'll see the Act's minimum for the situation you describe, in weeks and, where your pay allows, in dollars with vacation pay, plus a plain-language note on common-law notice. It is free.
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What the Act sets
| Length of service | Compensation for length of service |
|---|---|
| 3 months of service or less | 0 weeks |
| After 3 months of service | 1 week |
| After 1 year of service | 2 weeks |
| After 3 years of service | 3 weeks |
| After 4 years of service | 4 weeks |
| After 5 years of service | 5 weeks |
| After 6 years of service | 6 weeks |
| After 7 years of service | 7 weeks |
| After 8 years of service | 8 weeks |
Group termination pay, added on top
When 50 or more employees at one location are let go within a 2-month period.
- 50 to 100 employees8 weeks
- 101 to 300 employees12 weeks
- 301 or more employees16 weeks
Some jobs and situations fall outside these provisions: the professions listed in the Employment Standards Regulation (list checked September 30, 2026), jobs for a definite term, specific work to be finished within 12 months, construction-site work for an employer whose principal business is construction, on-call work you can accept or refuse (but not app-based delivery or ride-hail work), school-board and francophone-authority teachers (individual amount only), people who refused reasonable alternative work, and a job that became impossible to perform because of an unforeseeable event. Receivership and insolvency proceedings are not that exception. If you are not sure whether one applies, this calculator still shows the amount, but the Act may not apply to you.
Employment Standards Act (British Columbia), current to September 22, 2026 (latest official consolidation), checked September 30, 2026. Source: Employment Standards Act (British Columbia) s.63 and s.64